Read this excerpt from the passage. It seemed unworthy of a Dragon Painter to accept this multitude of material devices. He had painted on flakes of inner bark, still quivering with the life from which he had rudely torn them. Visions limned on rock and sand had been the more precious for their impermanence. Here, every stroke was to be recorded, each passing whim and mood registered, as in a book of fate.
Which of these best explains how the details in the excerpt help shape the rest of the passage?

Answer choices for the above question

1. They portray Tatsu's former career as an artist, which he will have to give up to begin his new life as a husband.

2. They illustrate the lack of proper art materials in the mountains, which drives Tatsu to come to the city for better ones.

3. They demonstrate Tatsu's unwillingness to start painting dragons, because he would rather continue painting mountains.

4. They reveal the tension created by Tatsu's struggle to

Who were the imagists? what did they believe? how is their view on the world seen in their poems?

Besides the revisions listed in the paragraph, what else can deepak do to strengthen his paper?

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky